OLD TESTAMENT

Proverbs 23:5

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Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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Verse 5. Riches. Septuagint “to him, the rich man, he no where appears. He has prepared,” and so forth Bible.—Like. Hebrew “as the eagle, it will fly,” and so forth Bible.—We must therefore fix our hearts on more durable goods.

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